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Help! said:
Same here, been to France a few times and even in famously supposedly unfriendly Paris I have always felt pretty welcome, though as with everywhere foreign I have ever been I think making an effort to speak the local language opens doors.

The worst actual racism I have ever had directed at me was in Stornoway, where I went into a pub where they were speaking English to each other and (ironically but unforgettably) rapt watching Emmerdale on the TV, but pretended not to be able to understand a word I said in my not entirely dissimilar accent and started loudly asking each other, also in English, whether they could understand what the foreign bastard at the bar was saying. What made it even more abstractly odd was the guy next to me at the bar who as I was hurriedly leaving anyway suggested I get out sharpish in a thick Geordie accent. A really odd evening...
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Strange people the world over. Good story all the same.
 
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dennisboothstash said:
Poles seem to like us when I've been there...they really don't seem to like the Germans though...
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Very much so, I used to go to Poland a lot in the communist days, and was always warmly received. My 2 best friends at School were from Polish refugees families after the war and were the most friend delightful people.
 
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Off The Line said:
Just for context, are you scared of people with darker skin than your own?
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How do you know what colour his skin is,have you met him?

As for context,he clearly points to the fact that he visited Brussels many years ago so it's fair to say he was surrounded by predominantly white 'Belgians' prior to the Jihadist invasion...
 
Heimdallr said:
It only ever takes a couple of jovial Alan Whicker observations to bring out the geriatric Tommy Robinson and his 'darker hues' and 'enrichment' comments. A pox on this forum.
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You do come across as someone who thinks himself above others who could do with reading threads before giving us the benefit of their ill informed nonsense. I was not the one who brought darker hues into it. I mentioned feeling uneasy in Brussels even when it had no immigrants there ( someone had mentioned Molenbeek and how it had altered things). An idiot’s response to that was to asked if I was frightened of people with a darker hue. As big an idiot as you with your post.
Shouldn’t you be busy earning a lot of money from causing pollution whilst telling everyone they should be buying EVs to save the planet?
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
I take it you never read post #70?
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Every other thread gets turned into some mention of Muslims, immigrants, race, foreigners, us vs. them, the old days when there was no crime etc. It's unnecessary.

From what I gather, you were once an immigrant and so was I.
 
Cityzen said:
You do come across as someone who thinks himself above others who could do with reading threads before giving us the benefit of their ill informed nonsense. I was not the one who brought darker hues into it. I mentioned feeling uneasy in Brussels even when it had no immigrants there ( someone had mentioned Molenbeek and how it had altered things). An idiot’s response to that was to asked if I was frightened of people with a darker hue. As big an idiot as you with your post.
Shouldn’t you be busy earning a lot of money from causing pollution whilst telling everyone they should be buying EVs to save the planet?
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You're assuming I was referring to you?

I don't earn a lot of money - I'm a drilling engineer for a company so a salaryman, I've never written that, nor referred to it, so i don't know why you keep mentioning it.

I don't tell everyone to buy EVs to save the planet. I reply on a post set up about EVs, to counter fears, false/mistaken knowledge and negativity, writing from someone who has used an EV for over ten years now.
 
Heimdallr said:
You're assuming I was referring to you?

I don't earn a lot of money - I'm a drilling engineer for a company so a salaryman, I've never written that, nor referred to it, so i don't know why you keep mentioning it.

I don't tell everyone to buy EVs to save the planet. I reply on a post set up about EVs, to counter fears, false/mistaken knowledge and negativity, writing from someone who has used an EV for over ten years now.
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Yes, I assumed you were referring to me with your geriatric reference. Are you telling me I was mistaken?

You have made a good living out of companies who bespoil the planet. And which sets up Norway. (a country, along with Denmark and Sweden which has seems to have had enough of cultural enrichment). Good enough to run EVs long before most people could afford one and to consider retiring at 60. And good luck to you. I am not a socialist type who begrudges people who make a good living and thinks they should e eavily taxed to subsidise the workshy and feckless.
 
Heimdallr said:
Every other thread gets turned into some mention of Muslims, immigrants, race, foreigners, us vs. them, the old days when there was no crime etc. It's unnecessary.

From what I gather, you were once an immigrant and so was I.
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Yes,maybe it is unnecessary...As is labelling someone a 'Geriatric Tommy Robinson'.

Noteworthy that you refrained from comment on posts earlier in the thread about 'Jocks' and the French?
 
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Heimdallr said:
Every other thread gets turned into some mention of Muslims, immigrants, race, foreigners, us vs. them, the old days when there was no crime etc. It's unnecessary.
From what I gather, you were once an immigrant and so was I.
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What an utterly ridiculous set of comments!
It's not every other thread.
There's a reason some mention the things you list. It's based on concern about what is happening across the West; concern for us and future generations. The Strange Death of Europe.
Yes, many of us were likely immigrants once. A fact that has virtually zero relevance to what is happening in our country and across Europe now. If you need it explaining as to why it's of virtually zero relevance then you are pretty much beyond help.
End of. It's a Euros thread.
 
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Heimdallr said:
Every other thread gets turned into some mention of Muslims, immigrants, race, foreigners, us vs. them, the old days when there was no crime etc. It's unnecessary.

From what I gather, you were once an immigrant and so was I.
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So, you didn’t read it and just spouted a load of bollox. I didn’t immigrate from anywhere. I was born here. And so were you.
 
Pens again will be England's Achilles heel.
I watched the U17s the other night dominate Italy, hit the woodwork 4 times. draw 1-1, then lose on Pens...
 
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